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Definition of Conceives
1. conceive [v] - See also: conceive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conceives
Literary usage of Conceives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Improvement of the Understanding: Ethics and Correspondcence of Benedict de by Benedictus de Spinoza (1901)
"He, who conceives himself to be hated by another, and believes that he has given him
... He who conceives another as affected with hatred, will thereupon be ..."
2. The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza by Benedictus de Spinoza, Robert Harvey Monroe Elwes (1891)
"If a man conceives that one, whom he has hitherto regarded without emotion ...
He who conceives, that another hates him, will (by the last proposition) hate ..."
3. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"And he conceives that the rock on which literary partnership gets wrecked is that
each member conceives he must write as much as the other. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Pleadings in Suits in the Court of Chancery, by English Bill by John Freeman-Mitford Redesdale (1795)
"If the defendant conceives his ... parts of the bill in which the matter conceives
the ... conceives ..."
5. Educational Issues in the Kindergarten by Susan Elizabeth Blow (1908)
"The free-play programme conceives him as a sentient being who reacts upon stimuli
from his environment, and by its claim that there must be no interference ..."
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